Test Your English: Preparation Guide. Дворжец О.С - 67 стр.

behaviour as temporary, but judged the less attractive ones to have serious                                    Text 14
behavioural problems.
                                                                               Part B. Directions:    Questions 1 through 5 are based on the text below.
1. – Which of the following is true?                                           (Questions 1 – 5)      Choose the one best answer to each question on
   – The notion of what makes a person pleasant to look at                                            the basis of what is stated or implied in the text.
   A makes a person change throughout history and culture.                                            Mark the answer in your answer sheet.
   B is attracted by history and culture.
   C depends on the physical attractiveness affecting the personality.
                                                                                     Pigeons make their home in town? No big deal. And it’s no surprise
   D has been perceived differently at different times.
                                                                              to see a fox trotting away from your bin bags. But the towns are being
                                                                              populated by a lot more than these. Despite our efforts to keep our habitat
2. There is a tendency
                                                                              human only, falcon hover overhead and hedgehogs amble around suburban
    A among people with good looks to be confident and polite.
                                                                              gardens, safer than they would be in the rolling fields of the countryside.
    B to agree on individuals.
                                                                                     Ecologists accept that the urban environment is a habitat in its own
    C to hold true perceptions up to a point.
                                                                              right and that urban wildlife is here to stay. There are two types of urban
    D to think that more attractive people develop more belief in their
                                                                              animal: those that live in towns in spite of us and those that do so because
       own abilities.
                                                                              of us. The former are generally native species. Often towns simply im-
                                                                              prison them as buildings surround their existing habitat. These species tend
3. What conclusion does the text draw about the relationship between
                                                                              to be on the decline as their home is slowly destroyed by human activity.
   appearance and self-confidence?
                                                                              The latter thrive in town.
   A People’s facial expressions are a better guide than their words.
                                                                                     The biggest success of all, the urban pigeon, originally lived on the
   B Appearances are deceitful.
                                                                              coast. There it’s known as the rock dove, but centuries ago it became do-
   C Behaviourism is based on the wrong judgement.
                                                                              mesticated when it began to nest in specially-built wooden dovecotes. Then
   D People who are considered attractive have more self-confidence.
                                                                              it soon hit the streets and began to scavenge for food thrown away by hu-
                                                                              mans. The city provides a warm place to sleep at night, but during the day
4. What title would you give to the text?
                                                                              thousands head out to surrounding farmland to feed on crops.
   A Appearance counts.
                                                                                     Pigeons truly epitomise town wildlife. “There are very few resident
   B Ego-building on an epic scale.
                                                                              bird species in places like central London”, says George Barker, of the con-
   C Perceptions and idols.
                                                                              servation agency English Nature, “but those which are there are there in
   D As good as it gets or transcontinental beauty.
                                                                              huge volumes. It’s a city wildlife characteristic – low biodiversity, high
                                                                              biomass”.
5. The word ‘adept’ means in the text:
   A insulting.
                                                                              1. – Which of the following is not true?
   B rude.
                                                                                 – Pigeons making their home in town
   C informal.
                                                                                 A never make big deals – only small ones.
   D highly skilled.
                                                                                 B can be often seen there.
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